Cameron Educational and Charitable Endea
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 820889626
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Cameron, LA, USA
- Phone
- 3375404623
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $155,141
- Expenses
- $106,553
- Assets
- $135,606
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEPHANIE RODRIGUE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- STEPHANIE RODRIGUE (PRESIDENT)
- PENELOPE RICHARD (SECRETARY)
- DEBBIE SAVOIE (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization is for charitable and educational purposes of the citizens, students, corporations and industries of cameron parish and the state of Louisiana. The organization's purpose is to operate, maintain, conduct and equip fairs, festivals, exhibits and other items incidental thereto for the purpose of showing, displaying and exhibiting the fishing industry of the state of Louisiana and those industries unique and vital to the parish of cameron with proceeds benefitting charitable and educational activities of the non profit corporation
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization participated with the cameron lions club in organizing and conducting the cameron lions club annual fishing rodeo. The organization provided individual scholarships and/or academic awards to high school and college students based on their accomplishments and criteria specified in the awards documentation and scholarship applications. The organization provided grants, stipends, contributions and/or awards to scholastic, charitable and other non profit organizations based on volunteer work provided to schools, charities, public and/or community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 57% for direct work, and 43% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.4%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 67.6%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 94.3%; rating input score 94; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.3%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.27; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -25.3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.4% of revenue deployed · 67.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 46 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $72K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.